We already revealed all the details to the 19-track indie-riffic soundtrack to the roller-derby comedy, “Whip It!” from director Drew Barrymore earlier this month.
With help from Wes Anderson’s music supervisor Randall Poster, the disc features folks like Jens Lekman, The Ramones, The Go! Team, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Breeders and more and the soundtrack disc comes out on September 29 on Rhino Records.
But there might be more to come. Like the successful, “Juno” soundtrack, which was also released by Rhino, the label and the director are already considering a second disc of bonus cuts, songs that are in the movie that didn’t make the cut of the first CD and songs that “inspired” the film.
Billboard spoke to Barrymore and confirmed some details that we had already correctly guessed. Landon Pigg’s (who also appears in the film as the romantic interest of lead star Ellen Page) “High Times” is an original song written for the film, and the Chordettes’ classic ’50s bubblegum tune “Lollipop” was remixed by Squeak E. Clean (Spike Jonze’s brother) and Desert Eagles, specifically for the film (Squeak E. Clean also composed the score to David O. Russell’s never-coming-out political satire, “Nailed.”) Another track clearly commissioned for the film was Har Mar Superstar and Adam Green cover of ’60s sunshine pop band the Associations “Never My Love” featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea on horns (this track rules, check it out). Har Mar also has a small part in the film as well.
And apparently there might be more. There is a whopping 75 music cues in “Whip It” (ugh, great, is this thing slathered in pop music?). Swedish indie pop musician Jens Lekman says there are a number of his songs in the film.
There’s a few of my songs in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut “Whip it”. Drew was really nice, she flew me out to LA, we had a cup of coffee and she showed me some clips from the movie. Usually I say no to film synchs because you just get a short synopsis from someone’s agent’s agent, and I always feel awkward my song will end up in the wrong context. You know, I write my songs for specific people, I find it hard to find them applied to someone elses story. But Drew listened to my concerns and we discussed the scenes she had in mind.
So Barrymore says cuts that could make the potential 2nd soundtrack disc include Radiohead’s “No Surprises” and score music by the Section Quartet. An ITunes playlist, presumably, Barrymore’s celebrity one will include “a lot of the songs we were listening to while we were making the movie that didn’t end up in the movie or for whatever reason we couldn’t have in the movie or we discovered them too late or whatever. They’re just sort of songs that inspired us.” “Whip It” hits theaters October 2 and apart from starring Ellen Page the film also features Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon and Daniel Stern.
The original Association track, “Never My Love”
Jens Lekman – “Your Arms Around Me”